Three Panthers Compete for Olympic Wrestling Team

UNI wrestlers at Olympic Trials - Jordan Holm, Joe Colon, Blaize Cabell

Carver-Hawkeye Arena – Iowa City, Iowa (15,000)
Tickets (sold by session, day and weekend passes)

SATURDAY
Men's freestyle (65 kg and 125 kg)
Women's freestyle (58 kg, 63 kg and 69 kg)
Greco-Roman (59 kg, 66 kg, 85 kg and 98 kg) – JORDAN HOLM

9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Preliminaries through Challenge Tournament finals
6 to 9 p.m. – Best two of three championship Series

SUNDAY
Men's freestyle (57 kg, 74 kg, 86 kg, 97 kg) – JOE COLON / BLAIZE CABELL
Women's freestyle (48 kg, 53 kg, 75 kg)
Greco-Roman (75 kg and 130 kg)

9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Preliminaries through Challenge Tournament finals
6 to 9 p.m. – Best two of three championship series.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Two former Panthers have earned top-eight seeds for at the Olympic wrestling trials set for this weekend in Iowa City.

Jordan Holm earned a top seed and will be the first Panther compete Saturday. He won the Pan-American Games Qualifier to earn an automatic bid to this weekend's trials. He will wrestle at 85 kilograms in the Greco-Roman division.

Joe Colon is seeded seventh at 57 kilograms in the freestyle division. Colon's third place at the 2014 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships is UNI's highest finish since Sean Stender took second in 2005. Colon is currently on the national team, which is reserved for the top three American wrestlers in each weight class.

Blaize Cabell is the only current UNI wrestler with a shot at making the U.S. Olympic team. Illness kept him from competing at this year's NCAA championships. He qualified by winning the 125-kilogram weight class at the Last Chance Qualifier last weekend in the UNI-Dome. He is expected to drop down to 97 kilograms and compete Sunday.

PANTHER WATCH
NBC Sports will provide live coverage. All fans can see Saturday's and Sunday's preliminary matches for free. Only fans with an NBC Sports cable package will be able to access the online stream for the best-of-three finals.

The U.S. Olympic Team Trials finals will air live on NBC Sports Network 6 p.m. Saturday and on tape-delay 9:30 p.m. Sunday following NHL coverage.

Fans can see all the action via NBC Sports Live Extra online or through the Live Extra app on mobile, tablet and through the Apple TV or Roku connected TV devices.

NBC Sports will have archived, digital coverage of every match wrestled at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials online.

Saturday, April 9
Morning/afternoon preliminaries/semifinals (9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.)
Live Stream

Mat 1: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21407
Mat 2: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21408
Mat 3: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21409
Mat 4: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21410
Broadcast: Digital only

Saturday evening finals (6-8:30 p.m.)
Live Stream

Mat 1: http://nbcsnstream2.nbcsports.com
Broadcast: NBCSN
Mat 2: http://liveextra.nbcsports.com
Broadcast: Digital only

Sunday, April 10
Morning/afternoon preliminaries/semifinals (9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.)
Live Stream

Mat 1: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21413
Mat 2: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21414
Mat 3: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21415
Mat 4: http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=21416
Broadcast: Digital only

Sunday evening finals – LIVE (6-9 p.m.)
Live Stream

Sunday evening finals – TAPE DELAY (9:30 p.m.-midnight)

Live Stream Link: http://nbcsnstream.nbcsports.com
Broadcast: NBCSN

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